Published: March 1, 1996

Who Is Jasper Woodbury?

In 1989, John Bransford and his colleagues at the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University asked two groups of students to read various passages of technical information. Members of the first group, called the "facts oriented'' group, were told to remember as much as they could from the passages they had read. Members of the second group, the "problem oriented'' group, were asked to read the text as though they were planning a trip...